'Rape Law' - 131 News Result(s)

After he said in a Facebook post that the Supreme Court had seriously "erred in law" by reducing the sentence of the convict in the 2011 rape and murder of 23-year-old Soumya in Kerala, Justice Markandeya Katju has been asked to explain his views in court.

Kerala Police's special investigation team probing the gruesome rape and murder of Jisha, a 30-year-old law student in Ernakulam, has claimed conclusive evidence against the prime accused Ameer-ul-Islam in its chargesheet filed today.

Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju today said that the Supreme Court had "grievously erred by law" in the Soumya rape and murder case in which the death sentence of the accused Govindacahamy was commuted.

The Union government today defended, before the Delhi High Court, the Indian Penal Code provision that says sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, who is not under 15 years of age, is not rape.

BJP members in Lok Sabha today demanded the resignation of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav over the gang-rape of a woman and her daughter in Bulandshahr as they hit out at the state government over the law and order situation there.

Slamming the BJP-led state government over the gangrape and murder of a minor girl here, MNS chief Raj Thackeray today said there was a need for a law like Sharia (Islamic) to check serious crimes against women and children.

The Supreme court today agreed to give an urgent hearing to a fresh plea of an alleged rape victim challenging provisions of abortion law which prohibits termination of pregnancy after 20 weeks even if there was a fatal risk to the mother and the foetus.

A migrant labourer from Assam, Amir-Ul-Islam, has been arrested for the horrific rape, mutilation and murder of a 30-year-old Dalit law student from Kerala's Ernakulam, which took place nearly two months ago.

Months after her statement that "concept of marital rape cannot be applied in the Indian context" created some controversy, Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday said even if there was a law against it, women are unlikely to complain about this kind of abuse.

When a Dalit student was found raped and killed in her home in Kerala, her intestines pulled out, her body battered and marked by a sharp instrument, the Left said the government owed people an explanation.